“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
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Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
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A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.
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Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves
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In Nigeria’s Niger Delta yesterday, thousands attended the funeral of Ogoni environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed by the Nigerian Government of Sani Abacha almost five years ago.
Hundreds of Zimbabwean white farmers are expected to attend a memorial service today of a colleague who was shot dead 10 days ago in a land dispute between white farmers and Zimbabwean independence war veterans.
There is perhaps no image of the revolution more universal than the caption of Che Guevara, the legendary Argentine guerrilla fighter, taken in March of 1960-–the trademark cap with the star of the revolution on his head, his eyes gazing into the distance. In fact, except for the famous shot of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grid, this particular photograph has been reproduced more than any other in history.